I have been hoping to do more events that are focused on creating, editing and using Wikidata queries SPARQL (https://query.wikidata.org/). Slowly but surely we are seeing edits to Wikidata at editathons here in New York City, where we do a lot of editathons, but it's really not happening on a consistent level of engagement.
I think to have a good Wikidata editathon, it would be necessary to make sure there were multiple training sessions and a very specific task list / scope of event. Probably the editathon -- and specifically conference settings -- are somewhat non-ideal to what needs to be more of a focused hackathon. At least this is my impression. I would love to do an editathon with librarians to add and/or update Authority control elements to Wikipedia / Wikidata. That would be very rewarding, I think. If there are suggestions to support and encourage events focused on Wikidata, I am very interested to hear ideas. - Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Tobias Schönberg <tobias47...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Loic! > > That is of course unfortunate that it didn't work as planned. Maybe if we > can get more people signed up for Wikiprojects it would make it easier to > get more specialised sessions organised. Or even plan separate events. > Especially for free software it might also make sense to have a workshop > and booth at open source conferences. The data from Wikidata could be very > useful for example to the freedesktop initiative, so there would be a lot > of synergies. > > -tobias > > Am 21.08.2016 7:07 nachm. schrieb "Loic Dachary" <l...@dachary.org> >> >> >> When the audience was asked for their preferences, I raised my hand and >> happily declared "Contributing to the Software and FLOSS projects !". Much >> to my surprise this was quickly dismissed: "we're only going to learn about >> tools, we create groups to use and learn about tools, not to work on a >> specific project". My interest for the Software project is known to both >> Harmonia Amanda and Ash_Crow, to the extent that I discussed with them my >> intent to recruit people to participate in the workshop for that particular >> topic[3], well in advance. The focus of our interest was also made clear in >> the participant list[4]. >> >> [3] 15 july 2016 <dachary> Ash_Crow: pour https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/WikiConvention_francophone/2016/Programme/Atelier_de_ >> formation_%C3%A0_Wikidata nous serons au moins trois avec pour centre >> d'intérêt https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informati >> cs/FLOSS et https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informati >> cs/Software . J'espère convaincre deux autres personnes mais c'est pas >> gagné ... l'attrait des vacances... >> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConvention_francophone/ >> 2016/Programme/Atelier_de_formation_%C3%A0_Wikidata# >> Participants_int.C3.A9ress.C3.A9s_.28inscrivez-vous_ci- >> dessous_et_posez_d.C3.A8s_.C3.A0_pr.C3.A9sent_vos_questions_ >> .C3.A0_l.27organisateur_de_la_session.29 >> >
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